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Arbitration   /ˌɑrbɪtrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Arbitration  n.  The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties. Note: This may be done by one person; but it is usual to choose two or three called arbitrators; or for each party to choose one, and these to name a third, who is called the umpire. Their determination is called the award.
Arbitration bond, a bond which obliges one to abide by the award of an arbitration.
Arbitration of Exchange, the operation of converting the currency of one country into that of another, or determining the rate of exchange between such countries or currencies. An arbitrated rate is one determined by such arbitration through the medium of one or more intervening currencies.






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"Arbitration" Quotes from Famous Books



... father, "we have determined to submit the matter to your arbitration. Shall Eugene remain at the Seminary, or shall he return ...
— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance

... but they know something has happened, and they are displeased at something, and they have lost respect for the employer. They are on a strike, and the very devil is going to pay to-morrow, unless the cause of the dissatisfaction is discovered, mutual concessions made, and arbitration resorted to. ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck

... to the southwest to see whether the newspaper reports of the strike were justified or, as he suspected, grossly exaggerated. The newspapers, at first inclined to side with the Pullman men in their demand for arbitration, had suddenly turned about and were denouncing the strikers as anarchists. They were spreading broadcast throughout the country violent reports of ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... and requested me to represent them to the emperor and to the imperial government—to protect them in their injured rights. I have first tried kindness and persuasion to bring back Austria from her desire of aggrandizement, but in Vienna they have repulsed every means of peaceable arbitration. I, as one of the rulers of the empire (and as I have reaffirmed the Westphalian treaty through the Hubertsburger treaty), feel bound to preserve the privileges, the rights, the liberty of the German states. I have therefore well reflected, and decided ...
— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach

... industries but that the very excess of the evil created a remedy. During the last ten years the industrial leaders have organised great employers' federations, which have become powerful enough to force the workers to submit to arbitration. ...
— The Psychology of Revolution • Gustave le Bon


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